Quotes About Ego

we first develop the Ego, then encounter the Soul, and finally give birth to a unique sense of Self.

The Ego is the "container" for our life. The Ego creates a boundary between us and everything else and mediates our relationship with the world.

The language of the Soul is right-brain, metaphorical, narrative, and paradoxical, very unlike the left-brain, logical, discursive, dualistic language of the Ego.

between the conscious lie to fool others and unconscious self-justification to fool ourselves, there's a fascinating gray area patrolled by an unreliable, self-serving historian—memory. Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

Confabulation, distortion, and plain forgetting are the foot soldiers of memory, and they are summoned to the front lines when the totalitarian ego wants to protect us from the pain and embarrassment of actions we took that are dissonant with our core self-images:

Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you're blasphemous because all you want is You

Henderson promoted an idea that we could all be the center of attention all the time. But if everyone is onstage, who's in the audience?

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

One hates an author that's all author.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

El modesto se embriaga mucho antes cuando prueba la vanidad.

The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

Pride goes before a fall.

Would you throw your life away for pride?

A modest fellow, this one," the septon said to Ser Lucas. "Were I as large as him, I'd call myself Ser Sefton the Immense. Ser Sefton the Tower. Ser Sefton with the Clouds About His Ears.

My head is too large, although I prefer to think it is large enough for my mind.

That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.